Twitter is working to get rid of trolls and make their service safer

Twitter is a place that can be wonderful when everything goes right, but it can certainly go wrong and the company has a long and notorious history with trolls. The company though is attempting to fix its image with a new set of updates.

The changes are aimed at weeding out repeat offenders, identifying problem users who have been ‘permanently suspended and stop them from creating new accounts’, though how Twitter will achieve this hasn’t been outlined. There’s also a new ‘safe search’ that will remove tweets which contain ‘potentially sensitive content’ or are from any accounts you’ve blocked or muted.

Lastly, Twitter says they’ve been working on technology which will identify and collapse ‘potentially abusive and low-quality replies’. That will look something like this:

Twitter says they’ll be rolling out more changes in the future to better combat the issues of trolls on their service. They’re listening, so if you have an issue reach out and let them know your thoughts.

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They mean right wing “trolls” right? They seem to allow any left wing accounts to say whatever they like and only take action against right wing conservatives…it’s their service they can do what they want but at least be upfront about the bias and stop pretending

I’ve never seen the lefties dive as deep into trolling as the RWNJs, but then again, it’s all down to who you follow I guess. Our Australian righties are not people I generally follow or want to know anything about.